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- My Top Scary Technology Trends
- The Most Terrifying:Google.Kills good companies by handing out "freebies". VERY scary.Machines replacing humansI thought they were tools to enhance our experience on earth.The worst is when customer is an AI telephone. "I'm sorry, could you repeat your last phrase. I did not understand". I thought the buttons were bad enough.RE:...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Windows 95 wiped out last PC competition
- Installed only on IBMAt least, isn't that what wiped out OS/2?OS/2 was a great OS, but everyone heard about Windows through marketing and away the lemmings go. The interesting twist is that Apple's limited hardware base is still getting them more customers. Apple is starting to show up as...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak
- Weak Passwords suckUntil about 4 years ago my organization had no restrictions on passwords. Our students got their birthdays or their phone numbers as passwords and our staff could choose whatever they wanted. Most common staff password was 1234. Well after years of security breaches and administration...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- HTC Imagio (Verizon Wireless)
- Verizon Wireless' V Cast video and music service bundle has long been a staple feature of its high-profile feature phones, like the LG enV Touch and the Samsung Rogue for example. But it is typically lacking in Verizon's smartphone offerings, so as not to detract from the smartphone's more business-friendly...
- Product reviews 2009-10-06
- The 2010 Productivity Tool Bonanza - Microsoft, Google, Zoho & Open Standards
- On the eve of what looks to be a major Microsoft productivity products year in 2010 with the Windows 7 operating system, Exchange 2010, Office 2010, MOSS/SharePoint 2010 and Azure it's interesting to look at how the market for these products serve has changed. ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Mobiaccess Development Framework 3.0 (Mobile)
- Mobiaccess Development Framework Mobiaccess - One solution for all platforms! Mobiaccess is a mobile development framework that enables developers to easily create mobile applications for data collection without extensive knowledge on mobile development. It handles data replication mobiSync and data visualization mobiVision as well. What can Mobiaccess Development Framework offer...
- Software downloads 2009-09-07
- Mobiaccess Development Framework 3.0 (Mobile)
- Mobiaccess Development Framework Mobiaccess - One solution for all platforms! Mobiaccess is a mobile development framework that enables developers to easily create mobile applications for data collection without extensive knowledge on mobile development. It handles data replication mobiSync and data visualization mobiVision as well. What can Mobiaccess Development Framework offer...
- Software downloads 2009-09-07
- How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business
- What a BS conclusion ...Are you serious or just plain delusional???Using a server is not using cloud computing. In fact, any decent professional company would never even think about anything "cloud" except for basic web hosting.Let me just give you the top two most logical reasons why real companies...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-06
- Hasso Plattner Demos Agile Columnar Database Concepts
- The enterprise world of SAP isn't just structured data: it's the fundamental infrastructure of countless international businesses. In business you follow the money to understand deal flow, and automating the planning and tracking of financial transactions from end to end...
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impact
- McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impactPlease, no more added bureaucracyThere will always be savings that can be extracted, but the crux is at what cost. To take a very simple example, electricity here in the Pacific NW is $0.10/KWH. Suppose tomorrow the price was suddenly $10...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- Helping corporations leverage the Web, using open source and the cloud
- What do open source and cloud computing have in common? For Navid Safabakhsh, principal at San Francisco and Philadelphia-based interactive web development agency Freshout, it's that both technologies are low-cost, high-yield solutions to help corporations leverage the customer data they collect on the Web. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Atlassian Embraces Open Social, Shows Strong Momentum at Summit
- The Atlassian Summit 09 has just concluded in San Francisco, kicking off a busy week for coders, with Sun's Java One also happening. The 6 minute video above, shot in dynamic wobble vision from my Flip UltraHD, is of a portion of CEO...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?
- Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?YepThe law of diminishing returns applies and the world moves on. Now to see some really innovative technology, who knows where it might come from but I seriously doubt it will be MS. Just like Sony ruled the world with the walkman (now the...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- Leading Belgian Public Sector Agency Le Forem Experiences 99.999% Data Consistency
- Le Forem, the leading Walloon public employment and vocational training services agency, needed a greater focus on unified, rewarding citizen service. At the same time, faced with an imminent loss of its monopoly position, the agency also needed to increase efficiency. To meet these challenges, Le Forem deployed Oracle WebLogic...
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Part Tree, er...Three
- To Recap We're heading into the homestretch. Which is why the Giants need to beat the Panthers....last night. Oh, snap. This isn't my NFL blog. I don't have one. This is the final episode in that hilarious sitcom, Greenberg's Fools Gold. For those of you who missed the previous...
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- Sun releases VirtualBox 2.1
- Andy Hall, Sun's Sr. Product Manager of VirtualBox, spent a while filling me on VirtualBox 2.1 the other day. He wanted to let me know that some significant milestones had been reached and tell me a bit about the new release. Significant Milestones First,...
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: "I don't think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop"
- Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: "I don't think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop"Exactly, its not about making money.Which is why it never will. The Linux community is anti-profit. Every profit making scheme is labeled as "evil" and a corruption of the FOSS way of life.Absolutely Correct!It is a...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
- Google and Sirius XM: Build my "Dream" Handheld
- The current rumor-mongering seems to indicate that HTC's "Dream" will soon be making landfall in the US. Based on the initially leaked specs of this device, it still sounds like it doesn't do what I really would want it to do in order to replace by Blackberry 8820. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-24
- What was the cause of the last PC failure you came across?
- What was the cause of the last PC failure you came across?The good old HDWhich is emulating a drum machine is my favorite and only means of failure I've ever encountered..Nearly all hardware failures...I come across could have been prevented by a quality UPS. I venture to say most failures...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Industrial Property Office Automates Information Systems to Support Czech E-Government Drive
- The Industrial Property Office wanted to update and accelerate paper-based processing of requests to support e-government efforts and automate processes. The challenge was to unify intellectual property information systems and connect customers to international networks for patent and trademark information exchange, including the European Patent Office EPO, World Intellectual Property...
- Case studies 2008-04-01
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